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Neural structure and function:“How the brain works”
Rebecca Elliott
Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology
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Understanding normal function
• How does the nervous system work?
• How does the nervous system support movement, perception, action, cognition, emotion, behaviour?
• How does the nervous system develop during childhood?
• How does the nervous system develop/decline during adulthood?
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Understanding impaired function
• Effects of traumatic brain/spinal injuries (1 million people in the UK living with effects of brain injury)
• Effects of non-traumatic brain injury – eg stroke (1 stroke every 5 minutes in UK)
• Effects of neurological and neurodegenerative illness: MS (127 000 in UK), MND (5000 in UK, 6 deaths per day) , Parkinson’s Disease (130 000 in UK) , dementia (850 000 in UK)– Economic impact of dementia more than cancer and heart disease combined
• Effects of neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD (1.5% children) and ASD (1.1% of population)
• Effects of psychiatric illness/mental health problems– ~1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem in their life (16
million people)
– 10% of 5-16 year olds have a mental health problem
– Huge economic and social impact
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Structure and function of neurons
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Brain Cells
• 2 types of cells (glial cells and neurons)
• ~100 billion neurons
• 1012 cells in total
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Development
• Neurons formed early in life
• Brain develops during childhood
• Limited regeneration after age 20.
• Glial cells provide structural, metabolic and nutritional support for neurons
• Can replace themselves
• Important in neural development
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Neurons
Axons can be up to a metre long: longest are in the sciatic nerve
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Types of neuron
1. Bipolar neuron
2. Monopolar neuron
3. Multipolar neuron
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Glial cellsOligodendocytes:Structural support, myelin
Astrocytes:Nurtitional and metabolic support
Microglia:“Scavengers”, clean up
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Interconnecting neurons
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How neurons communicate
• 1. Electrical signalling (within a neuron)
– Travels from the dendrite through the cell body to the axon
• 2. Chemical signalling (between neurons)
– Sent from the axon of one neuron to the dendrite of another
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Action potential
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Propagation
Up to 120 m/s
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Between neurons: The Synapse
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How do things go wrong:
• Dementia: neuronal loss
• MS: demyelination which affects signalling along axons
• Parkinson’s disease: loss of neurotransmitter, dopamine
• Schizophrenia: excess dopamine
NB: these are gross oversimplifications!
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TreatmentsPreventing/reversing neuronal loss is the holy grail…..
Psychoactive drugs:
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Structure and function of the brain
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PS1000 18
The Brain• 1400g (~2% body weight)
• Cerebral hemispheres
• Convolutions = folding= gyri (gyrus)
• Separated from each other by sulci (sulcus)
• White matter – fiber tracts
• Grey matter – cell bodies and dendrites (lack myelin)
• What do different bits do??
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I. “Old Brain”
A. Brain Stem
1. Medulla
2. Pons
3. Reticular Formation
B. Thalamus
C. Cerebellum
D. Limbic System1. Amygdala
2. Hypothalamus
3. Hippocampus
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I. Older Brain Structures
A. Brainstem:Oldest part of the brain. Base of spinal cordAutomatic survival functions.
Newborn babies:
Mostly brainstem function
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Brain Stem
1. Medulla controls heartbeat, breathing,
blood pressure
2. Pons- coordinates movement
Damage often fatal or can lead to coma or persistent vegetative state
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Reticular Formation
• Controls arousal:
• Severed = coma
• Dysfunction can cause narcolepsy
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Thalamus
Thalamus: brain’s sensory switchboard
It directs messages to the sensory areas in the
cortex
Damage to the thalamus is very rare but can cause a range of sensory problems
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The “little brain”
It helps coordinate voluntary movements
and balance.
Cerebellum
Damage causes a range of problems with movement and balance (including slurred speech and impaired eye moments)
NB: Alcohol intoxication has profound effects on the cerebellum
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The Limbic System isassociated with
EMOTIONS (such as fear, aggression and drives for
food and sex) and MEMORY
It includes the hippocampus, amygdala,
and hypothalamus.
The Limbic System
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AmygdalaLinked to emotion (especially threat)
Damage causes “Kluver-Bucy” syndrome
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Hypothalamus
Hypothalamus: regulates eating, drinking, body
temperature, and emotions, libido.
It controls the endocrine system
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Hippocampus
• Learning and Memory
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Forebrain
• Cerebral hemispheres, thalamus, hypothalamus
• Cerebral hemispheres– Frontal
– Parietal
– Occipital
– Temporal
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Structure Major Function
Frontal Lobe
Motor cortex
Broca’s area
Prefrontal cortex
Plans and executes voluntary movements
Controls speech
Planning, impulse control
Parietal lobes
Somatosensory cortex
Association cortex
Projection area for body senses
Location of body and objects in space
Temporal lobes
Auditory cortex
Wernicke’s area
Inferior temporal cortex
Auditory information
Language area – meaning
Visual identification of objects
Occipital lobes
Primary visual cortex
Visual association cortex
Projection area for visual information
Processes components of visual information
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Corpus callosum
Thick bundle of fibres connecting left and right hemispheres
Allows inter-hemispheric communication
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Test of corpus callosum function
• In pairs.• One of you close your eyes and put your hands face up.• Partner touches one of their fingertips with a pencil• Person with eyes closed touches the corresponding finger OF
OPPOSITE HAND with thumb of the same hand.• Repeat on the opposite hand• Now swap roles
• Patients who have damage to the corpus callosum usually can’t do this test, because it relies on communication between the two hemispheres of the brain.
• Only works with eyes closed, because information from the eyes goes to both hemispheres
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How do we know which bit of the brain does what??
• Until 1980s relied on:– Animal studies (limitations – eg language)
– Cognitive psychology
– Neuropsychology
• Some examples:
• Also see many popular science books (eg “The man who mistook his wife for a hat” by Oliver Sacks)
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What is memory?
• Different types of memory: short-term, long-term, autobiographical, semantic, sensory, spatial, procedural etc etc
• Different component processes: encoding, storage, retrieval
• Different brain regions/mechanisms and different types of dysfunction
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Types of memory
Short termLong term
SensoryWorking memory
ImplicitDeclarative
(explicit)
PrimingEpisodic(events)
Semantic(facts)
Conditioning
Procedural (skills)
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Short term memory
• Memory for “nonsense syllables”
• Memory for number strings
– Digit span (remembering phone numbers)
– 7 (plus or minus 2)
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D R T H N L
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C F G A Y P K
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E R F P T H N Q
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W J U S C D H V C
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What was the first series of 6 letters I showed you?
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What was the name of your favourite primary school
teacher?
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Primacy and recency effects
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Primacy effect
Recencyeffect
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Types of memory
Short termLong term
SensoryWorking memory
ImplicitDeclarative
(explicit)
PrimingEpisodic(events)
Semantic(facts)
Conditioning
Procedural (skills)
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Short term memory impairment
• Patient KF: Left occipito-parietal lesion
• Digit span of 2
• No recency effect in free recall
• Normal learning
• No amnesia
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Types of memory
Short termLong term
SensoryWorking memory
ImplicitDeclarative
(explicit)
PrimingEpisodic(events)
Semantic(facts)
Conditioning
Procedural (skills)
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Long term memory: Patient HM• Medial temporal lobectomy
• Damage to hippocampus
and surrounding cortex
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Neuropsychology• Personality and IQ intact
• Massive anterograde amnesia (couldn’t form new memories)
• Moderate retrograde amnesia (for memories 1-3 years pre-op)
• Normal digit span
• Could not learn new facts
• Could acquire new skills (in absence of explicit memory of learning them)
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Incomplete pictures
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Clive Wearing
• Massive hippocampal damage after viral infection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y
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Types of memory
Short termLong term
SensoryWorking memory
ImplicitDeclarative
(explicit)
PrimingEpisodic(events)
Semantic(facts)
Conditioning
Procedural (skills)
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Language
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Bryan (Wernicke’s aphasia)
• Speech is apparently fluent but has limited meaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0
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Mike (Broca’s aphasia)
• Meaning is intact but non-fluent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWC-cVQmEmY
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Emotion and personality: The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage
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Phineas Gage’s Terrible Accident
• On September 12, 1848, Phineas Gage, a railroad foreman was blasting rock in Cavendish, Vermont.
• Gage was responsible, well-liked, and hardworking. He was in charge because he was dependable.
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The Blast
• Gage was an expert in blasting rock. He used a tamping rod to pack down gun powder after a layer of sand was placed over top.
• ….but on this occasion he forgot the sand
• The RESULT: The pointed end of the rod shoots through the left cheek bone and the brain
• Tamping Rod
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A Miracle?
• The rod exploded with such force that it landed about half a football field away.
• Gage remained conscious and was able to walk with assistance.
• Talking on the way to the hospital
• Memory, language, motor function all normal
• Artist Drawing
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But…..• Gage recovered by January of 1849.
He attempted to earn a living travelling around New England with his rod and his story
• “Gage was no longer Gage”
• Significant changes to personality and behaviour. Poor judgment, “feckless”, “irrsponsible”
• (Plus…. Lost an eye and had massive seizures)
• IMPLIES: Personality and judgment separate functions (of orbitofrontal cortex)
• Phineas Gage
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Neuropsychology: limitations
• Patients with focal damage are rare
• Usually major trauma involved which can have other effects
• Never studying “normal” brain function
• Considerable functional recovery is possible: what is abnormal is not just what is damaged
• Making inferences about human behaviour/cognition from N=1 (or N = not many)
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In the last 30 years we’ve had a new technique:
Biomedical Imaging
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X ray of brain?
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Ultrasound of brain?
• Doesn’t work!
• Bone blocks sound waves.
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What is MRI?
• Basically a large electromagnet
• It’s always on
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How does MRI work?
• Human body is 60% water, brain is 75% water
• Exact concentration varies between different tissue types (grey matter vs white matter)
• Measuring protons in tissue water
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Hydrogen atoms spinning In a magnet (note unmatched protons)
Radio pulse on
Radio pulse offMaths Image
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Brain tumours
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Dementia
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How the brain works?
• People are awake in the scanner
• A bit noisy but painless
• Can ask people to look at things or think about things and see which parts of the brain react.
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We can look at:
• Perceiving
• Thinking
• Behaving
• Feeling
• And how they go wrong
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Perceiving: colours and words
Colour Naming: What colour is it written in??
REDBLUE
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Shout out the colour of word
Get ready to start
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YELLOW
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BLUE
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RED
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GREEN
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RED
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BLUE
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YELLOW
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GREEN
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RED
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BLUE
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You have finished this
task
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Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC)- Error processing after conflict- Problem in depression & schizophrenia
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Stroop taskWhy is it so hard??
Conflict between the colour and the word.
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Adolescents vs. adults
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Thinking: Memory
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Stimulus Delay Test
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Age-related memory decline
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Behaving: stopping
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Clap when you see any letter except
“V”
Get ready to start
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Stopping task
- Impulse control-Various problems if it doesn’t work properly
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Addiction(Dependence)
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Feeling: emotional faces
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Shout out FEMALE or MALE when see face
Get ready to start
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Non-depressed Depressed
The Amygdala
Most of us
Anxiety
Depression
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Brain damage and recovery
Talking……
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What happens in the brain when we talk?
LEFT RIGHT
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fMRI of 25 year old.
Brain damage from birth.
Speech is normal.
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Stroke in older people: Language may be very bad at first then get better
Healthy 2 Days 2 weeks 9 months
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Can behaviour change your brain?
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Lifestyle changes?
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Shorter term?
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Brain Imaging
• How we perceive
• How we think
• How we behave
• How we feel
• Normal changes (age, behaviour)
• Pathology and (sometimes) recovery
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The future of neuroimaging
• Traditional neuroimaging study ~10-50 participants using single modality
• Increased use of multimodal imaging
• Increased collection of concurrent (clinical, biological) variables
• Increased awareness of sources of variability
>>>>> “Big Data” neuroimaging (big means big)
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Human Genome project
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Human Connectome project
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What is a connectome
• Complete description of the structural connectivity of an organism’s nervous system
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History
• 1986 worm C. elegans (300 neurons = 7000 connections)
• Electron Microscope
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Technical Challenges• One Petabyte (1 million GB) of computer memory stores the image of
1mm cube of mouse brain.
• To map the human brain at the cellular level ~ 1 million petabytes of information. – more than the digital content of the world right now– Would take 10 million years to compute
• The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information
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State of play
• Not operating at the cellular level!
• Human Connectome project: international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale using MRI.
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New ways to scan the brain
• Diffusion MRI
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging
• Diffusion Spectrum Imaging.
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Open science and biobank imaging
• Move to share data from structural/functional/connection imaging
• Large multi-centre projects doing secondary analysis
• Biobank projects including imaging measures: will result in large databases with accompanying demographics/biomarkers/lifestyle factors etc
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UK Biobank project
• 5000/500000 participants to date – aiming for 100000• Largest health imaging project• Findings (using big data modelling approaches):1. Strong associations between people’s cognitive processing speed and
markers of the integrity of the brain’s “wiring” and the size of brain structures
2. Strong associations between higher blood pressure, greater alcohol consumption, and several measures that could reflect injury to connections in the brain.
3. Correlations, linking intake of alcohol and tobacco and changes in red blood cells and cardiac fitness, to brain imaging signals associated with increased iron deposits in the brain.
4. More complicated patterns of correlation, eg one pattern links brain imaging to level of education, and a set of lifestyle factors that at first appear unrelated – including amount of time spent outdoors and how much cheese people eat!!
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Conclusions
• Human brain is massively complex• Effects of brain damage/dysfunction have profound
personal, social and economic consequences• Huge normal variation in brain structure and function,
which may relate to a whole range of developmental and lifestyle factors
• New approaches to data sharing and “big data” analysis likely to lead to significant advantages over the next decade
• “The greatest challenge in science is sitting right here on our shoulders”